“Lemonade for sale” by Stuart J. Murphy,is about a group four kids and their side kick and their parrot Petey who have decided to sell lemonade to make money and fix up their club house. They then created a graph to keep track of their sales.For the first three days the graph had a steady increase in sales and then there is a noticeable drop in sales. They noticed that it was because of the neighbor down the street. The neighbor had been getting their costumers to come to his house by juggling for them. They came up with a smart idea, and asked the juggler to go juggle over by their lemonade stand and the sales then went through the roof. “Lemonade for sale” shows a way of graphing showing economics of a company. It’s teaching you about producing and consuming. They produce the product of lemonade and then sell it and they watch their money increase to decrease to increasing even more. It shows that your economic growth can easily go up and down. This book does a great job on explaining the way graphs relate to the real world. I think literature is an effectives way to learn a mathematical concept because it shows you exactly how the graph is being done and why it is changing. You aren’t just plugging in numbers to a formula, you are actually seeing with your own eyes.
I agree that by using a graph, kids can easily see how business profits can increase or decrease, through a visual representation. Although it looks like this book was designed for kids the same holds true for most adults, making information easy to understand as the author has done in this book, is in many cases, the key to successfully conveying a concept.
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ReplyDeletegood synopsis of this book. i like that you chose to focus on the concept of economics and consuming and producing! also, i agree that literature helps you to see the math.
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